Hi,
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 07:30:46PM +0100, Lawrence Manning wrote:
>
> Mar 30 18:19:39 CosaNostra kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer
> dereference at virtual address 00000008
>
> 1 bit short of NULL. Could be that path in the kernel is especially good
> at showing bit errors in memory, at a guess. Case not closed though.
That almost always just means that the kernel has a pointer to a
structure, that the pointer is NULL, and that the code in question
has tried to access a field at offset 8 bytes into the structure.
Still looks like a null pointer dereference to me.
--Stephen
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